# The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume Two

## GA 265 — Hildesheim

### The Three Esoteric Lessons for the Wachsmuth-Lerchenfeld Group

Rudolf Steiner's notebook entries, notebook archive number 281. Some of this may also have been given in the esoteric lesson in Kristiania (Oslo) on 18 or 20 May.

*May 27, 1923, Dornach, the Wachsmuth-Lerchenfeld group*:

First enjoyment of the Esot. Then forgetting the Esot.

1.) Examination of the seriousness =

2.) Hatred, ambition, denied love, astral light  
3.) The legend  
4.) The intentions<  
today = one has lost the word and the  
thoughts to the I.

Thought-feeling

Melas

speak rightly, s l m ch  
so that the word Salem  
works

“Lord  
over thyself

”Brethren of the... (another version)

*According to Rudolf Steiner's manuscript from notebook archive number 281*

Divine Sculptors of the Universe  
Feel the soul-sacrifice smoke  
Which we in your light heights  
Worshipping would like to let flow.

Divine thinkers of the universe  
Take into your thinking the sacrificial word  
That we entrust to the air circles  
Which meet you when your forces  
worlds through space.

Divine creators of the universe  
Take into your being our own being  
So that we may flourish under your protection  
When you lift up from the depths of the earth  
a world growing towards the heights of light.

*Meditation from the esoteric hour Dornach, May 27, 1723*

The Indian mantram

*The wording has not been handed down. Among Rudolf Steiner's handwritten notes on these esoteric hours are two Indian mantras*:

Yasmāt jātam jagat sarvam, yasminn eva praliyate  
yenedam dhriyate caiva, tasmai jnānātmane namah.  
From whom the whole world originates, to whom it  
returns,  
through whom it is securely supported,  
To Him the Self who knows, be all honor.

*The other Indian mantram is recorded in the notebook as follows:*

Satyam gnanam anantam Brahma  
ananda rupam amritam vibharti  
Shantam Shivam advaitam  
Shanti Shanti Shanti.

*Wording of the two subsequent manuscripts by Rudolf Steiner*

*The two manuscripts, obviously written down together, come from the estate of the English sculptor Edith Maryon, who was Rudolf Steiner's colleague in the sculptural wood group and fell ill after the building fire. Rudolf Steiner, who visited her repeatedly during her illness, apparently told her about the esoteric lesson of May 27, 1923 and wrote down the two mantras for her.*

*Note sheet archive number 5852*

J A O U E (preparation)

Catch the butterfly  
Send it to the icy heights (3 1/2 years)  
Where the world dreams (memory)  
It becomes a bird for you  
Then you have done half the work (-I now)  
(Forgetting)  
Dip the bird  
In the depths of the sea  
Where the will of the world is at work  
The bird drowns  
Then you still have to do  
To burn the bird's corpse  
Purifying in the fire  
Then consume the ashes  
And you are  
The light in the darkness of the world. - (Tragedy)

(Above the vowels:)

J still within,  
A one opens to the world that says a lot  
O the angels come, give hands  
U the second hierarchy comes, flows around one with light  
E the first hierarchy comes and burns one in fire.